It means that all regional programmes have already been accepted by the European Commission. On 7 December, programmes for the Lubuskie, Kujawsko-Pomorskie, Podlaskie, Pomorskie, Świętokrzyskie and Zachodniopomorskie voivodeships were adopted as the last ones.

It is the first regional programme officially adopted by Brussels for the new financial perspective’, Deputy Minister Małgorzata Jarosińska-Jedynak said at the conference inaugurating the programme.

Poland will receive 320.1 million Swiss francs under the second edition of the Swiss-Polish Cooperation Programme. Today, Minister of Development Funds and Regional Policy Grzegorz Puda and Swiss Secretary of State for Economy Helene Budliger Artieda signed an agreement to this effect in Warsaw.

The Accessibility Plus program, challenges of the open labour market and the role of professional and social insertion of people with diagnosed disabilities are the main topics of the Congress organised on the occasion of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities. Deputy Minister of Development Funds and Regional Policy Małgorzata Jarosińska-Jedynak participated in the event that took place in Rzeszow.

A conference on accessibility in the social and vocational fields is being held in Lublin on the occasion of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities. The event was attended by the Deputy Minister of Development Funds and Regional Policy, Małgorzata Jarosińska-Jedynak.

‘The involvement of young people in the discussion on creating urban development was an important aspect of the World Urban Forum in Katowice (WUF11). Young people are one of our key partners in this debate. It is them who will live in the cities of the future’, Deputy Minister Małgorzata Jarosińska-Jedynak said at the meeting with representatives of scientific circles who were actively involved in the preparations for the WUF11.

Increased investment in business innovation, development of a more environmentally friendly economy, subsidising transport and road infrastructure, education and health services, and reduction of social exclusion were the goals of the European Funds for Kujawy and Pomorze programme to be implemented in the region in 2021-2027. Priorities of the programme were discussed at today’s meeting of the Funds Academy in Toruń in which Minister of Development Funds and Regional Policy Grzegorz Puda and representatives of authorities of the Kujawsko-Pomorskie voivodeship, its local government and entrepreneurs participated.

‘Environmental protection, cross-border mobility, culture and tourism, cooperation between institutions and citizens – these are topics of the cooperation for which applicants can receive funding from the Interreg Poland-Slovakia 2021-2027 Programme’, Grzegorz Puda, the Minister of Development Funds and Regional Policy said at the conference opening the programme. Veronika Remišová, the Deputy Prime Minister of the Slovak Republic and beneficiaries of the current edition of the programme who presented effects of their projects implemented as a part of the Polish-Slovak partnership also took part in the event.

The European Commission disbursed the first advance worth 5.5 million euros for the Technical Assistance Programme. Further payments are expected soon.